The California Department of Insurance ruled an Indiana insurance carrier cannot enforce the terms of the collateral and indemnity agreements that were part of a large deductible workers’ comp program. The carrier did not file the side agreements for approval before they were used. The ruling stems from a dispute between Protective Insurance, formerly Baldwin …
Officials behind the illegal workers’ comp programs run by American Labor Alliance and its alter ego Omega Community Labor Union were back before a California Department of Insurance administrative law …
A temporary staffing firm took a second run at preventing the State Compensation Insurance Fund from collecting premium on the per diem payments it made to the respiratory therapists it places in area hospitals. But the California Department of Insurance says the payments don’t qualify as per diems under California’s Uniform Statistical Reporting Plan. A …
In another audit case, State Compensation Insurance Fund was right to demand premium for 29 drivers that a trucking company claimed were independent contractors, according to the California Department of Insurance. The drivers in question did not own the trucks they drove and incurred no expenses to maintain, fuel, and insure the vehicles. The case, …
In a decision that holds lessons for all insurance brokers and their clients, the California Department of Insurance says State Compensation Insurance Fund misinterpreted state law and charged, when it shouldn’t have, premium on the commissions paid to the “solar brokers.” The brokers helped the insured sell its products and services. CDI ordered the carrier …
A company providing outsourced housekeeping and stewarding services to a culinary college challenged the classification assignment by its carrier, The Hartford, and the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. LCS Services which has an X-Mod of 179, according to Compline (see chart), was seeking assignment to class 9101 covering private colleges and universities. The advisory pure …
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara or his special counsel have for the second time refused to adopt an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) decision that is widely seen as averse to …